My latest article has appeared in Third World Quarterly. Co-authored with my former graduate student, Princess Ilonze, the article is titled “Taking foreign aid and decoupling seriously: a framework for research” and is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2021.1898279
The latest article from my Developing Conformity research project has been published in The Sociological Quarterly. Co-authored with Dr. Qian Wei, the article examines the relationship of bilateral foreign aid flows to human rights decoupling in aid-receiving countries. ABSTRACT Despite extensive literature examining human rights decoupling between treaty commitments and practices, little research has addressed … Read more
Andrew Dawson (York University, Glendon Campus) and I have published the latest article from the Developing Conformity project in the British Journal of Sociology. The article is available to all via open access. This article uses a World Society theory framework to test the effects of foreign aid on both the diffusion of rule of law reforms … Read more
The first review of my book The Globalization of Foreign Aid: Developing Consensus has been published in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies by Brianna Scrimshaw Botchwey (University of Toronto). Really happy to see it! Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1453353
On May 15 & 16, the Katë Hamburger Kolleg Centre for Global Cooperation is hosting a workshop I have organized on foreign aid, norms, and the World Society. Bringing together sociologists, political scientists, economists, and other development scholars studying foreign aid from an institutionalist perspective, the workshop is intended to be a starting point for … Read more